If any ideas have a claim to be called creative, because they have created something, then certainly it is the ideas of science. - Jacob Bronowski

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Science is not a special sense. It is as wide as the literal meaning of its name: knowledge.

The ability... to experiment with imaginary situations, gives man a freedom... the pleasure in trying out and exploring imaginary situations. A child's play is concerned with this pleasure; and so is much of art, and much of science... [P]ure science... is a form of play, in this sense.